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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo is another classic tale of love, lust, and tragedy from one of the world's great authors.
Originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris, which translates to Our Lady of Paris, the Cathedral for which this novel is named looms over the book just like it looks over Paris. And its primary residents, Claude Frollo and Quasimodo exhibit all that can exist within a church - someone with worldly knowledge and outward appeal but is utterly corrupt inside alongside a person with no outward beauty and great physical hardships concealing a beautiful soul. And between them, a person of compassion wanting to help the latter while evading the former.
It doesn't end happily, but life seldom does.
This book inspired the peoples of Paris, and Europe in general, to restore the beautiful Gothic architecture that surrounded them to its former glory. For that alone, I laud this book.
Originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris, which translates to Our Lady of Paris, the Cathedral for which this novel is named looms over the book just like it looks over Paris. And its primary residents, Claude Frollo and Quasimodo exhibit all that can exist within a church - someone with worldly knowledge and outward appeal but is utterly corrupt inside alongside a person with no outward beauty and great physical hardships concealing a beautiful soul. And between them, a person of compassion wanting to help the latter while evading the former.
It doesn't end happily, but life seldom does.
This book inspired the peoples of Paris, and Europe in general, to restore the beautiful Gothic architecture that surrounded them to its former glory. For that alone, I laud this book.